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Metaphor
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Comparison of 2 unlike things, analogy to imply that one object is anotherEx: He is a pig
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Conceit
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Extended metaphor, elaborate/unusual comparison
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Simile
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Comparison of 2 unlike things using like or asEx: he eats like a pig
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Onomatopoeia
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A word that imitates the sound it represents Ex: splash, wow, gush, kerplunk
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to animals or objectsEx: a smiling moon
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Synecdoche
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Uses a part to represent the wholeEx: Lend me your ears (give me your attention)Ex: All hands...
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Metonymy
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Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it, using a vaguely suggestive,...
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Protaxis
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Pieces of language put together, equalizing order with regard to syntaxEx: Nick's nickname...
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Hypotazxis
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Functionally similar but unequal constructs, dependent relationship
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Anaphora
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Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses,...
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Caesura
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A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry (part of rhythm-cutting or slicing), slash...
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Enjambment
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A line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing...
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Reliable narrator
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Authoritative/credible
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Unreliable narrator
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Credibility has been compromised
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Denouement
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Unraveling, fireworks, excitement, outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of...
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Poetic Foot
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A foot in poetry, a basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light...
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Stanza
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Unified groups of lines in poetry, arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated...
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Quatrain
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4 lined stanza, existing in various forms
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Tercet
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3 lines of poetry--stanza or poem, various formsEx: Haiku
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Couplet
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Pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed/have the same meter
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Octave
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8 lines of iambic pentameter (in English)First part of Petarchan sonnet
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Meter
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Recognizable, through varying, pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of...
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Native Meter/Ballad Meter/Common Meter
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4x4, children's rhymes, usually only the second and fourth lines rhymeBallad:consisting of...
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iambic pentameter
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5 feet composed of iambs (10 syllables), 2 syllables (one stressed, one not stressed)
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Anapest
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2 unstressed syllables followed by one stressed
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Spondee
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2 stressed vowels--strong, strong Ex: blood creeps
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Masculine rhyme
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Ending dumRhyming of single-syllable words (grade/shade) Multiple syllables: same sound in...
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Feminine rhyme
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Ending daRhymed stressed syllable followed by identical unstressed syllables (butter/clutter)
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Villanelle
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Fixed form poetry: 19 lines of any length divided into 6 stanzas--5 tercets and a concluding...
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Sestina
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Fixed form poetry: 36 lines of any length divided into 6 sestets and 3 line concluding stanza...
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Sonnet
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Lyric poem of 14 lines (usual iambic)Petrarchan: 8 line stanza, 6 line stanza Octave--two...
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Hyperbole
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ExaggerationEx: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
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Litote
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Understatement, understate idea in order to convey the opposite idea: double negatives can...
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Scansion
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Process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern...
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Free verse
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Nonconformity to established patterns of meter, rhyme, stanza, uses speech patterns, grammar,...
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter, most common
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Confessional poetry
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Biographic confession, take a step back from a time in their lives, backward look
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Anti-confessional
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Abbreviated, happening in real time, vantage point cut off
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Ekphrasis
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The graphic, often dramatic, description of a visual work of art Out and speak
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Gothic
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Science/superstition/religion coming to head, gloomy or frightening literature, mystery, murder,...
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Sublime
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So beautiful it evokes terrorEx: Frankenstein's Alps
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Picturesque
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Pleasure in ruin
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Palimcest
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Write and rewrite over, placed on top of each other--clues hard to find (Gosling--Bottle of...
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Intentional fallacy
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Transcendent: meaning intended by author is primary importance
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Imitational fallacy
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Idea that subject and narrative linkedEx: drugs/flowing narrative: words don't work that way
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Pathetic fallacy
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Attributing human emotions to thingsEx: A tree as lonely
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Trauma
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Trauma theory--Freud-post holocaust, short sentences, narrative of control, emerging after...
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The Uncanny
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The most common things become the most disturbing and creepy thing
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New Criticism
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40s: after world wars, focus on the intrinsic qualities of a work rather than on its biographical...
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Lacan: language and mother
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Baby inside mother--no need for speech, language in humans need to go beyond language--relationship...
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Modernism
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· Idea
of individualism,, mistrust of institutions (government, religion) and...
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Realism
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· trapped
in those descriptions, fantasy instead would make more liberating...
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Interior consciousness--interior monologue
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· Characters’
thoughts are revealed in a way that appears to be uncontrolled...
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Stream of consciousness
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· Mode
of narration that attempts to capture the full spectrum and continuous...
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Time and drama...
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often thought of as a narrative of present tense
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Plot
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· Structure
and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction
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Senario, stage directions
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· Stage
directions—playwright’s written instructions about how the actors...
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Character
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· any
representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative...
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Dialogue
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· Conversation
between people, the speech of characters in a drams
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Soliloquy
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· Monologue
spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes...
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Spectacle
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· One
of the 6 components of tragedy—mode of imitation
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of...
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Staging
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· Selecting,
designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for...
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Fourth wall, audience
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· Imaginary
wall that separates the events on stage from the audience—the...
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Greek chorus
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· Group
of minor actors in tragic/comic plays of Athens
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any...
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Trochaic tetrameter
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more common in
this work than any other from classical antiquity: this meter was favored...
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